Fighting Hate with Compassion

Author Jessica Cobain discusses the Trump administration's family separation policy and a new movement to remove Stephen Miller from his position as the president's senior adviser.

As an immigrant it breaks my heart to see images of small children along the border who have been locked up in cages after being separated from their families. The pictures and sounds of thousands of children being snatched from their parents’ arms have touched millions of Americans.

A recent Quinnipiac poll tells us that most Americans believe President Trump’s policy of ripping children from their parents at the border is horrible. What most Americans do not know is that this policy, the Muslim ban and the cancellation of DACA and so many others, originate with Senior Advisor to the President Stephen Miller. Miller is the unseen puppet master pulling Trump’s strings.

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